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Britannia was a 301 burthen ton full-rigged whaler built in 1783 in Bridport, England, and owned by the whaling firm Samuel Enderby & Sons.She also performed two voyages transporting convicts to Port Jackson.
24 December 1783 An Act to continue and enlarge the Term and Powers of an Act, made in the Third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair the Road from Kirkby Kendall, in the County of Westmorland, to Kirkby Ireleth, in the County of Lancaster."
HMS Thunderer was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in 1783.She carried 74-guns, being classified as a third rate.During her service she took part in several prominent naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars; including the Glorious First of June, the Battle of Cape Finisterre and the Battle of Trafalgar.
The Battle of Cuddalore in 1783 was a naval battle between a British fleet, under Admiral Sir Edward Hughes with Admiral L.J. Weiland, and a smaller French fleet, under the Bailli de Suffren, off the coast of India that took place right before the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
HMS Gladiator was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy.She was launched on 20 January 1783 by Henry Adams of Bucklers Hard.She spent her entire career on harbour service, never putting to sea.
He served as chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) and as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783) and then of the United Kingdom (1807–1809). The gap of 26 years between his two terms as prime minister is the longest of any British prime minister .
